Unsuccessful Attempts of Mr. Plekhanov to Wriggle Out
Неудачные попытки г-на Плеханова вывернуться
Date: 1917-04-05
Source: ru:PSS/v31
Translated by: AI (Claude)

Mr. Plekhanov in No. 15 of "Edinstvo" with an abundance of abuse unusual even for this abusive publication attacks "Pravda," trying to hush up two absolutely indisputable established facts.

You will not succeed in hushing them up, gentlemen!

The first fact. Mr. Plekhanov did not reprint either our report published in No. 32 of April 5, 1917 of the "News of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies," nor the resolution of the Executive Committee.

This is not only anarchistic disrespect for the elected representatives of the majority of soldiers, this is the dishonest technique of a pogromist.

The second fact. The persecution by Mr. Plekhanov provoked a protest not from us, but from "Delo Naroda," where even a colleague of Guchkov and Milyukov, Kerensky, participates. "Delo Naroda" of April 13, 1917 wrote about Mr. Plekhanov's "Edinstvo" in black and white:

"...such words, such a method of struggle we are accustomed to seeing on the pages of 'Russkaya Volya.' And to see them in the articles of socialists, in all conscience, is hard and painful."

Here is the testimony of defensist witnesses who are politically a thousand times closer to Mr. Plekhanov than to us.

On what readers then does Mr. Plekhanov count, rejecting the witness's testimony with words about an "unsuccessful note" of "Delo Naroda"?

The witness exposed Mr. Plekhanov in pogrom techniques.

There was a time when Mr. Plekhanov was a socialist, now he has sunk to the level of "Russkaya Volya."

No abuse will eliminate the fact that even "Delo Naroda" exposed Mr. Plekhanov.

"News of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies" (No. 43 of April 17) in a lead editorial article, which we reprinted in the issue of April 18, call the persecution "dishonest and disgusting."

This witness directly says that dishonest and disgusting persecution by dark forces and their newspapers was and is. Mr. Plekhanov, who has sunk to the level of "Russkaya Volya," is sufficiently condemned.

"Pravda" No. 37, May 4 (April 21) 1917
Printed from the text of the newspaper "Pravda"